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 PRESIDENT TETLOW

The 2023 Bronx Power 100: The movers and shakers in the Boogie Down Bronx.
City & State NY 06-05-2023
Tania Tetlow, President, Fordham University: The first woman and layperson to lead the Bronx’s largest and most storied university has worked to preserve Fordham University’s legacy while embracing its future. Tania Tetlow has embraced social justice as a central plank of her presidency and is not afraid to buck the Catholic Church when she believes it’s in the best interest of Fordham University. In April, she interviewed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Bronx native, for a Fordham University School of Law event.

CLIPS OF THE WEEK

MARK CONRAD
PGA Tour, LIV Golf merger creates even bigger ‘monopoly,’ but at what price?
USA Today 06-07-2023
Without viable competition, monopolies theoretically can raise prices for consumers, underpay their labor and not care about customer complaints. In this case, the new golf entity would “dominate the market for men’s professional golf,” said Mark Conrad, director of the sports business concentration and associate professor of law and ethics at Fordham. “No doubt.”

Advice From Famous Commencement Speakers
U.S. News & World Report 06-09-2023
Stevie Wonder spoke at Fordham University in New York.
Advice to graduates: “You really do have to be woke. Now, maybe some people in this nation, some leaders some governors don’t understand what being woke is. Let me tell you what it is. It’s being awake. Being awake. Being aware. … So stand up and be counted as one against oppression, hatred, and let’s keep the truth alive.”

MARK NAISON
On a South Bronx street corner, ‘Black Benjie’ finally gets his due
Gothamist 06-04-2023
That provision proved crucial to the massive hip-hop parties held in locales across the borough in the 1970s, said Mark Naison, a professor of history and African American studies at Fordham University who has collected oral histories for the Bronx African American History Project.

JAMES BRUDNEY
Supreme Court ruling could chill labor strikes
Reuters 06-02-2023
“The court’s analysis may have modestly lowered the union-protection threshold in considering applicability or scope of the ‘take reasonable precautions’ test,” said James Brudney, a Fordham University Law School professor of labor and employment law.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Kelli Giddish Revealed She’s Expecting Her 3rd Baby with the Sweetest Photo
NBC 06-02-2023
The beloved character is doing great: [Amanda Rollins, portrayed by Kelli Giddish] recently returned to Law & Order screens on both Organized Crime and SVU, and we learned she’s thriving in her new job as a Fordham University professor of criminology.

CURRAN CENTER FOR AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDIES

A look inside the Vatican meeting that brought Pope Francis and Martin Scorsese together
America Magazine 06-08-2023
The conference took place on May 25-27, co-sponsored by the Office of Mission and Ministry of Georgetown University and the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, along with support from Fordham University’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies and Loyola University Chicago’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

HUGH HANSEN
Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She’s suing them instead.
The Washington Post 06-05-2023
As a staunch defender of the patent system, Newman “feels it’s even more important for her to dissent,” Fordham University law professor Hugh Hansen said. “This particular point of view might be lost if she doesn’t.”

JAMES BRUDNEY
Supreme Court ruling could chill labor strikes
Reuters 06-02-2023
“The court’s analysis may have modestly lowered the union-protection threshold in considering applicability or scope of the ‘take reasonable precautions’ test,” said James Brudney, a Fordham University Law School professor of labor and employment law.

REBECCA KYSAR
Opinion: Implement the global minimum tax and don’t undermine it
The Washington Post 06-05-2023
Rebecca Kysar, a professor at Fordham University School of Law, served as counselor to the assistant secretary for tax policy in the Treasury Department from 2021 to 2022.

JED SHUGERMAN
Trump Team Braces for Federal Indictment as Former Aide Testifies in Miami
The Messenger 06-07-2023
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who is investigating the case, might rely on the D.C.-based grand jury for indictments of Trump and any former government officials who played significant roles in the last days of his administration, said Jed Shugerman, professor at Fordham Law School.

JED SHUGERMAN
When will the Supreme Court rule on Biden’s student loan forgiveness? What borrowers need to know
CNBC 06-08-2023
Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman had tweeted after the February arguments that he was “struck by SG Elizabeth Prelogar’s brilliant performance.”

MATTHEW SCHAFER
The Mail: Actual Malice
The New Yorker 06-05-2023
“Jeannie Suk Gersen’s piece about the Supreme Court’s landmark 1964 decision New York Times Company v. Sullivan, which protects the media against defamation lawsuits, tells only part of the story (Books, May 22nd). Critics of the decision argue that Sullivan must be reworked because its principle of “actual malice” (knowingly or recklessly publishing false information) presents an impossible burden for plaintiffs,” wrote Matthew Schafer, adjunct professor of law at Fordham University.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

JOHN FORTUNATO
Surprise Merger of PGA Tour, Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Stuns Sport
Voice of America 06-07-2023
John A. Fortunato, a professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and author of the book Making the Cut: Life Inside the PGA Tour System, told VOA he was surprised by the PGA’s change in tone.

MARK CONRAD
PGA Tour, LIV Golf merger creates even bigger ‘monopoly,’ but at what price?
USA Today 06-07-2023
Without viable competition, monopolies theoretically can raise prices for consumers, underpay their labor and not care about customer complaints. In this case, the new golf entity would “dominate the market for men’s professional golf,” said Mark Conrad, director of the sports business concentration and associate professor of law and ethics at Fordham. “No doubt.”

MARK CONRAD
Can PGA Tour, PIF deal survive antitrust concerns?
The Athletic 06-08-2023
“It’s going to be very interesting to see what policies or restrictions will come to pass in this new entity, which as a basic monopoly is going to dominate the sport really worldwide,” said Mark Conrad, director of the sports program at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

IPSITA BANERJEE
Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting awards to Ipsita Banerjee and Barbara Hillery
Chemical & Engineering News 06-04-2023
Ipsita Banerjee, a professor of chemistry at Fordham University, has been named the 2023 E. Emmet Reid Award in Chemistry for Teaching at Small Colleges in the American Chemical Society Middle Atlantic Region.

MARK NAISON
On a South Bronx street corner, ‘Black Benjie’ finally gets his due
Gothamist 06-04-2023
That provision proved crucial to the massive hip-hop parties held in locales across the borough in the 1970s, said Mark Naison, a professor of history and African American studies at Fordham University who has collected oral histories for the Bronx African American History Project.

CHRISTINA GREER
June is Pride Month
New York Amsterdam News 06-01-2023
“This Pride Month, I am going to show my support for the LGBTQ community by learning more about (and donating to) the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer+, and same-gender loving (LGBTQ+/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS,” wrote Christina Greer, associate professor of political science.

STUDENTS

WILLIAM WINALSKi
One New Canaan family, two Eagle Scouts: Nature-lovers build garden beds, beehives for the community
New Haven Register 06-05-2023
William Winalski, a rising sophomore at Fordham University’s Gabelli School, recently received the Ryan M. Adams scholarship, named in honor of a Ridgefield teen and Eagle Scout who died in 2015.

ALUMNI

RYAN GREENHAGEN
Greenhagen Named Patriot League Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
News12 06-07-2023
“Over at Fordham University, a first for a male Ram student-athlete, linebacker Ryan Greenhagen has been named the Patriot League’s male scholar-athlete of the year,” said Pat O’Keefe. “Greenhagen graduated Fordham with a 3.85 grade point average and then earned his master’s in business analytics.”

JUSTIN SHACKIL
As Yankees fans await John Sterling’s return, fill-in Justin Shackil seizes chance
The Athletic 06-02-2023
Sitting in an empty booth overlooking Yankee Stadium last week, Justin Shackil, 36, let the idea sink in and immediately tried to shake it off. … Me? Replacing John Sterling? Shackil cuts off the thought.

NICK STONE
Former Aussie footballer’s coffee chain plans 3rd NJ location
NJBiz 06-05-2023
Bluestone was founded a decade ago by Melbourne, Australia, native Nick Stone, a former Australian Rules Football (AFL) player who hung up his cleats in 2005 and moved to New York to attend business school at Fordham University while working in finance.

FRANK CALDERONI
Velocity Global CEO Frank Calderoni on the Journey of an “Employable” CEO
CNBC 06-05-2023
“I went the safe route, I thought,  which was to go into the finance world. I went to Fordham University here in the city, and I went into the college of business administration. I got interested in finance and accounting, and that kind of started my career in the financial side,” said Frank Calderoni.

MARY GOULDING
Family of Tall Fern Mary Goulding reveal she is out of critical condition
The Press (New Zealand) 06-01-2023
Goulding, who played college basketball at Fordham University in New York City, and professionally in New Zealand (most recently for the Mainland Pouākai), Australia and Sweden, had just made a full recovery from an Achilles tendon rupture suffered in last year’s New Zealand Tauihi league.

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